Tension-induced fusion of bilayer membranes and vesicles

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-228

  Shillcock, Julian C ^a   Lipowsky, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DOSAGE; FUSION REACTIONS; HYDROPHILICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SURFACE TENSION;

BILAYER MEMBRANES; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS (DPD); PLANAR MEMBRANES; VESICLES;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE FUSION;

LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 14744297207     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1333     Document Type: Article

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